I have listened to the video. This is correctly translated. “... werden lassen in der erwartung...”
As you would expect as it seems to have been translated from @florianeder, a decent German speaker
If you see the video, Merkel actually says it with a cheeky smile. This is part of the EU’s “geopolitical awakening” which Covid does seem to be bringing about. It won’t be as pretty as think tanks think
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As you can see, I don’t take seriously the idea that the digital yuan can become a global standard. I see it as part of an effort to create a new, granular, precision economic statecraft
The new precision tools can be used by Chinese authorities to apply coercive economic measures against local or foreign companies. In all likelihood their mere presence will change the rules of the game
I really wish I could buy the idea defended by aviation people that there is no Covid risk inside a plane because the air moves upwards and is constantly filtrated and blah blah. 90% of the colds I ever got were in a plane...
Now if airlines had at least stopped serving their horrible food during a pandemic so people would keep their masks on. But no luck. I believe they would bring those trolleys over even after both wings broke off
There is of course a study showing like 7 people got Covid on a Singapore-London flight a year ago. Business seats too
What is the Indo-Pacific you ask. Well there comes a time when the concepts of geography stop being adequate for geopolitics. The crucial ocean link of our timr goes from Japan to Suez. It’s the Indo-Pacific. Both the Pacific and the Atlantic matter a lot less
Japan, China, SE Asia, India, Middle East and Europe is what 70-75% of global GDP? All tightly connected in one single arc
This arc in 30 years will be one continuous area of economic development, like the arc from Milan to Amsterdam in its day but on a scale 20 times larger
Not quite sure how this is compatible with the classification as genocide
The way I read it Biden is saying China has a justification for doing what it is doing in Xinjiang but Biden cannot afford politically not to criticise it, which Xi understood and accepted
The worst in a way is that Biden seems to say China needs to be united in order not to be victimised - and united means HK, Xinjiang ... and Taiwan
"I think that Islamo-leftism is eating away at our society as a whole, and universities are not immune and are part of our society," Minister for Higher Education Frederique Vidal told CNews television on Sunday.
Further proof that that for the government the problem is not Islamism
Portugal is really an interesting country: percentage of those 65-79 that have been vaccinated is equal to those 18-24
You may well ask why. The answer would involve a little digression into political philosophy
You have to understand the country is organised around the rule of corporations: corporatism. So the police will get vaccinated, the firemen, the Nazare fishermen, the supermarket cashiers, the bus drivers, the volleyball players, the politicians...